NATO should ‘direct’ Ukrainian drones against Russia – Swedish PM

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said NATO states should help Ukraine “direct” its drone attacks “in the right directions,” blaming a string of Ukrainian UAV incursions into the airspace of the US-led bloc on Moscow.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service said this week that Latvia had allowed Ukraine to use its territory for potential drone attacks on Russia. Baltic officials have rejected the allegation, while insisting that Kiev has every right to defend itself but asking it to better control its drones.

Ukraine “must be more precise” with its drones, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday, echoing similar warnings from Estonia and Finland.

Asked about the comment during a joint press briefing with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the Swedish PM accused Russia of trying to “give the impression that other countries are kind of doing things that are not legitimate.”

“We should really not be open for the Russian narrative on this, but instead, of course, help the Ukrainians as much as we can to direct, to help them direct their attacks in the right directions,” Kristersson said.